Bassem Youssef > Quotes

“it easier to use religion to mass-control people with shitty lives?”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Or maybe it is the very nature of military rule: they hate diversity and they don’t know how to deal with it, so the best thing is to make everyone as homogeneous as the uniforms in their training camps. The”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“when you bend down once, you stay bent, you never stand tall again.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“The army could not have been happier. The result of the referendum was a repeated slap to the faces of those liberal powers who thought they could change the country. The army never wanted change, not with so many interests, businesses, and powerful people involved. It was a system sixty years in the making. Removing Mubarak didn’t even touch the deep state that he was a disposable face of. The Muslim Brotherhood were never serious about the revolution either. They used it simply to come into power. They had no problem with the old regime as long as they were on top of it. One”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“An authoritatrian regime, whether military or religious, doesn't want diversity. Having masses of people who think the same. talk the same, and hate the same is much easier for maintaining control.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“I am not going to censor myself to comfort your ignorance.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“you got Trump as president, so you’re really not in a postion to mock our “democracy” or our “choices”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“When you laugh, you are not afraid anymore.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“in a two-man race the other candidate came in third”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Normal people began to see that a beard was not synonymous with honesty. It was simply a patchy place to hide one's lies.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Same scare tactics, different days of the week.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Fear has always been their best weapon. Fear of refugees, of people who don’t look like us, fear of “losing our religion and identity,” fear of war, and the destruction that will happen if you don’t blindly follow your dictator, or simply the fear arising from dealing with facts, reality, and science, because truth is not really their friend.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“With Sissi, he was not the elephant in the room, he was the elephant and the room. As”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“My team had to endure the same agony Jon Stewart’s team had to go through while watching Fox News.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“I was dropped by the establishment, but I was chosen by the people.”
― Bassem Youssef

“never really liked being a doctor. It was just a great line to open a conversation with a hot chick.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“college student was arrested for photoshopping Mickey Mouse ears onto Sissi’s head.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Egypt was living through one tragedy after another. People were killed every day because of something. This became our own Columbine reality on a weekly basis. There was always this challenge of trying to make people laugh amid such terrible circumstances. But what could we do?”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“If you are going to kill me, at least I’m allowed to scream”
― Bassem Youssef

“You can’t really respect or fear something you are laughing at.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Dealing with Israel is so difficult. It’s like being in a relationship with a narcissistic psychopath. He f***s you up and then he makes you think it’s your fault.”
― Bassem Youssef

“Fact-checking the authorities is looked upon as a form of mutiny against the country or against God. They will always find a way to justify ridiculous claims. If you challenge those claims, you don’t like the country or you are misinformed by “mainstream media,” which is not telling you the “truth.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Having masses of people who think the same, talk the same, and hate the same is much easier for maintaining control.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“You are preaching a religion that we don’t know and don’t want to be part of. Keep that religion to yourself and we will keep ours.” Those”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Human rights” became an infamous phrase. In the state-run media, they accused anyone supporting human rights of using it as an excuse to create chaos to destroy the country from within.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“ignorance, xenophobia, racism, and everything that Donald Trump stands for can transcend borders, cultures, and religions.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“The young generation is not taking this bullshit again.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Our segment of the week just wrote itself.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“it was in their best interest to prop up imaginary enemies all the time to keep people distracted.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring

“Those who called themselves liberals proved later that being well dressed, eloquent, and standing up against Islamist fascism doesn’t really mean you are a liberal. On the day of my interrogation the joke was on the Islamists. But a year later the liberals were the new joke that kept on giving.”
― Bassem Youssef, Revolution for Dummies: Laughing through the Arab Spring